WHETHER THE DOG'S OWNER WILL BE CITED OR FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES. A BATTLE OVER A TEEN'S BODY. HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS GIRLFRIEND'S FATHER AFTER HE CAUGHT THEM TOGETHER IN A BEDROOM. NOW THERE'S A TWIST OVER WHERE HIS BODY BELONGS AND TO WHOM. LOCAL 2'S IRIKA SARGENT JOINS US LIVE WITH THIS FEUD THAT IS TEARING THE FAMILY APART. Reporter: DOM NEAK, THE BOY'S ADOPTED MOTHER LIVES OUT HERE IN THIS SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD AND SAYS SHE RAISED THE BOY SINCE HE WAS A BABY. SHE HAD PLANS TO BURY HIM BUT TODAY SHE SAYS SHE FOUND OUT THAT HIS BODY WAS MISSING. TAKEN BY THE BIRTH MOTHER. AND THAT BIRTH MOTHER SPOKE TO US TONIGHT. THE WAY 17-YEAR-OLD JIRON McDORMIC DIED SHOCKED HIS FAMILY. BUT NOW TRYING TO BURY HIM BRINGS ANOTHER UNEXPECTED CONTROVERSY. THE BOY'S ADOPTIVE MOTHER FROM HOUSTON SAYS JIRON'S BIRTH MOTHER TOOK THE BOY'S BODY. IT'S AN ACCUSATION THAT BIRTH MOTHER STACY LEBLANC IS NOT DENYING. SHE -- SHE HID HIM AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND -- [INAUDIBLE] Reporter: JIRON WAS SHOT AND KILLED A WEEK AGO WHEN INVESTIGATORS SAY A FATHER SKIFFED THE BOY IN HIS 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM. AND THE DAUGHTER INITIALLY DENIED KNOWING JIRON. DETECTIVES SAY THE GIRL LATER ADMITTED TO KNOWING HIM AND INVITING HIM OVER TO HER HOME. THE MOTHER HAD THE BODY SHIPPED TO NEW ORLEANS WHERE SHE PLANNED TO BURY HIM, BUT THE BIRTH MOTHER SAYS SHE GOT HER OWN FUNERAL HOME TO PICK UP THE BODY WHEN IT ARRIVED. LEBLANC SAYS SHE TOOK THE BODY BECAUSE SHE IS STILL LEGALLY THE MOTHER. I NEVER, EVER GAVE HER ANY RIGHTS TO MY BABY. SHE DISREGARDED ALL MY RIGHTS. AS A PARENT. Reporter: McDORMIC IS NOW IN LOUISIANA TRYING TO GET THE BODY BACK. ACTIVIST QUANNEL X IS HELPING HER WITH THAT FIGHT. WE CALLED SOME LAWYERS IN LOUISIANA, IN NEW ORLEANS, WHO ARE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO FILE AN INJUNCTION TOMORROW. Reporter: BRIAN WICE SAYS THE LAW ON CUSTODY IS CLEAR. IF THE BIOLOGICAL MOM NEVER HAD HER PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATED, THEN SHE GOES THE ONE WHO -- THEN SHE IS THE ONE WHO ULTIMATELY CALLS THE SHOTS. IF THE ADOPTIVE MOM WITH COME FORWARD WITH A COURT ORDER MAKING HER THE PARENT, THEN IT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SITUATION. Reporter: WELL, THE BIRTH MOTHER AND THE ADOPTIVE MOTHER CERTAINLY DON'T AGREE ON MUCH, BUT THEY BOTH SAY THAT THEY WANT TO SEE SOMEONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR 17-YEAR-OLD JIRON'S DEATH. REPORTING LIVE IN SPRING, IRIKA SARGENT, KPRC LOCAL 2. LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY HERE A TEENAGER IS DEAD. WHO DOES EVERYONE THINK SOMETHING HELD ACCOUNTABLE? Reporter: IN SPEAKING WITH THE MOTHERS AND QUANNEL X, THEY SAY THAT THEY WANT TO SEE THAT DAUGHTER WHO INVITED JIRON INTO THE HOME, THEY WANT TO SEE HER

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Two families are now battling over the body of the boy who was killed by his girlfriend's father.

The boy's adoptive mother, Zakia McCormick, of Spring, said the boy's birth mother took the boy's body.

Investigators said Johran McCormick was shot and killed when a man discovered the boy in his 16-year-old daughter's bedroom.

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Detectives said the daughter initially told her father she didn't know the boy. Investigators said after McCormick's death the girl admitted she knew him and invited him over to her house.

Zakia McCormick said she shipped Johran McCormick's body to New Orleans, where she planned to bury him, but his birth mother, Stacy LeBlanc, said she arranged for her own funeral home to pick up the body when it arrived in New Orleans.

LeBlanc said she did it because she is still legally Johran McCormick's mother.

"I never ever gave her any rights to my baby. She disregarded all my rights as the parent," said LeBlanc. "She excluded me out of everything. She hid him and everything else, and guess what, I knew her day of reckoning was going to come."

Zakia McCormick went to New Orleans to try to get the body back. Activist Quanell X is helping her with the fight.

"We called some lawyers in Louisiana -- in New Orleans who are going to attempt to help file an injunction," said Quanell X.

Quanell X wonders if LeBlanc now wants to claim the body because she wants to get money from any civil lawsuit involving Johran McCormick's death. LeBlanc denied that she is motivated by money.

KPRC legal analyst Brian Wice said the law on the custody issue is clear.

"If the biological mom never had her parental rights terminated, then she is the one that ultimately calls the shots," said Wice. "If the adoptive mom can come forward with a court order making her the parent, then it's a totally different situation."

Zakia McCormick and LeBlanc do not agree on much, but they both said they want to see the girl who invited Johran McCormick over to her house held responsible in some way for his death.

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